We just want to make you aware of My Tennis Tools, which offers an easy way for tennis players to mount a video camera on the fencing surrounding the courts on which they play. Videoing your game is often a great way to pinpoint how you can improve — but when you don’t have someone to wield a video camera for you, what do you do? That’s why My Tennis Tools’s patented QM-1 Portable Tennis Camera Mount is a great thing to add to your arsenal. Marty Coynes, head tennis coach of Bloomsburg University, put it this way on the MyTennisTools.com website: “This mount is so functional it puts to shame any others. It was designed by someone who thought it through. I paid over $200 for another mount that is a pain to use. With the QM-1, I just mark the mount [where to angle the bracket], and the kids can’t screw it up. We bought two last spring, and that’s why we just ordered three more. We do a ton of video work with our tennis teams, and these mounts are easy to work with and even harder to mess up...

We invite opportunities to work with students. We know they’re learning a sport for a lifetime — and that our tools could help them. Coaches frequently contact us, looking for ideas about creative ways to use our applications to reinforce the lessons they’re giving — and their colleagues in math and science classes are giving, too. We look forward to hearing from you. Colleges we serve Colorado State University Rams – Women’s Tennis Huntington University Foresters – Men’s and Women’s Tennis Marian University – Men’s and Women’s Tennis Ohio State Buckeyes – Men’s Tennis University of Northern Colorado – Men’s Tennis High Schools we serve D’Evelyn High School (Denver, Colorado) – Girls Tennis Golden High School (Golden, Colorado) – Boys Tennis Lafayette High School (Lexington, Kentucky) – Boys Tennis Mountain Range High School (Westminster, Colorado) – Boys and Girls Tennis Mountain Vista High School (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) – Boys Tennis Plainfield High School (Plainfield, Indiana) – Boys and Girls Tennis Yongsan International School of Seoul (Seoul, Korea) – Boys and Girls Tennis Middle Schools we serve Denver Montclair International School (Denver, Colorado) – Boys and Girls Tennis Yongsan International School of Seoul (Seoul, Korea) – Boys and Girls...

My Tennis Stats is available in eight languages — and more are on the way. We offer the application in English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. We wish to make our applications as accessible as possible, so we welcome requests for language translation. We track our customers’ requests and try to work new languages into our production schedules as we identify market demand. If you have questions or ideas, we hope you’ll contact...

When the kids I coach walk off the court after a match, I often ask how many unforced errors they made — because we know the player with the most number of unforced errors will lose the match. To be frank, they don’t know. A recent juniors match serves as a good example. The teenaged boy I coached had lost the match by a narrow 5-7 margin. He was very disappointed. Because I had used the My Tennis Stats application to track his match, I could show him where, exactly, he needed to continue working on his game — and how he could capitalize on the weaknesses of his opponent. The application showed that the boy’s opponent had missed 83 percent of all backhand returns, but my player had served there only six times. After a week of practice focused on serving a high percentage overall (to lower the likelihood of double faults) and a well-placed serve to the backhand, my young player faced the same opponent the following week. His first serve percentage rocketed to 65 percent, and he hit a whopping 14 serves to the opponent’s backhand, forcing nine errors. He won the match...

If you’re playing tennis in metro Denver, contact us to have a member of the My Tennis Stats team track your stats and video you in action. Don’t have an iPhone, iPod or iPad? Want to see the value of our application before you buy it? No problem. We’ll track and email you your match stats — but we’ll also send you a DVD. Our In-Person Tracking Service is great for players who: need a little technical help on their strokes want to make the most of lessons by showing their video to a coach wish to scout opponents enjoy comparing notes and developing strategy with their tennis-playing friends. Pricing My Tennis Stats Complete statistical Email My Tennis Stats / Video Combo Complete statistical Email and DVD video Singles Each player receives: Complete statistical Email Only $20 ($10 per player) Each player receives: Complete statistical Email DVD of the match Only $40 ($20 per player) Doubles Each player receives: Complete statistical Email Only $36 ($9 per player) Each player receives: Complete statistical Email DVD of the match Only $60 ($15 per player) Contact Us To setup a match, please fill out the contact us form on our company website by clicking here. Please Note: Scheduling is subject to availability and location, and unfortunately we are limited to matches in the Denver metro...

We’re especially proud of the middle school tennis team at Denver Montclair International School. The inaugural team’s 6th-grade members not only used My Tennis Stats to learn the sports basics and track their progress on their school-issued iPads — they also finished the season with a 6-1 team-match record. Their middle school league was organized by the Colorado Tennis Association.

Chip Hudson knows he’ll never be Roger Federer, six-time Wimbledon champion. Eric Deines knows he’ll never be Steve Jobs, founder of Apple and father of the Apple iPhone. But that didn’t stop the childhood friends from combining their shared love of computer programming with Hudson’s passion for tennis to make a program for the Apple iPhone they hope will become a tool for tennis enthusiasts, coaches and trainers. The app, “My Tennis Stats”, allows iPhone users to keep statistics of matches as they’re playing and store data about past matches. The program can be downloaded for $9.99 from the iPhone App Store. Deines and Hudson, both 31 and Broomfield natives, have been friends since they met at Kohl Elementary and have been programming since their days at Broomfield High School. They started working on the application in December, finding time for it on weekends and afternoons. They both have day jobs as computer programmers and families: Hudson works for aerospace giant Northrop Grumman Hudson, and has a son and another child on the way; Deines works for Zoll Data Systems, which makes programs used in the medical industry, and has a son and a daughter. Hudson and Deines hope their program makes money, but it also was a labor of love that gave them a chance to learn new programming skills, as neither had worked with Apple products before. “We figured it would be a good resume booster,” Deines said. The result looks good. With a tap of the phone’s touch screen, “My Tennis Stats” keeps track of details such as how many aces a player serves, how many unforced errors he makes or whether he wins a point on a forehand or backhand. It also has the crisp graphics iPhone users have come to expect. The target user is a coach or trainer, who would use it from the sidelines. Hudson also wants to tap the parents of young tennis players as a market. He acknowledges the program is probably too complex for a player to use during a match. Whether the pair have the chops as salesmen to make it a smash with the tennis community remains to be seen. The program was released to the public June 28. In the first week it had sold 20 copies. But Hudson is pushing the program hard and is passionate about the product and the sport. He started competing in tennis tournaments when he was 11, and continues to play in United States Tennis Association leagues. He travels around the country to compete in tournaments. “I’m pretty plugged into the tennis community in Colorado,” Hudson said. “Most of them have been pretty excited (about the app). They want to get their hands on it.” Hudson also has hawked “My Tennis Stats” on “In the Tennis Zone,” a local radio show on AM 1510, a sports talk station. Deines is okay with letting Hudson take the lead in promoting the app. If Hudson is the duo’s Steve Jobs, who pushes Apple products with evangelical zeal, Deines is more like Steve Wozniak, who programmed and built Apple’s first computers in the 1970s but left the spotlight to his partner. Plus, Deines isn’t really a tennis guy anyway. His sport is soccer. Writing the program has taught him a lot about the...